Ricardo Prada Silvy
CTO CHASM Advanced Materials
Dr. Ricardo Prada Silvy has more than 30 years of experience in executive leadership and technical positions and currently serves as CTO at Chasm Advanced Materials and affiliate lecturer at the University of Oklahoma. He holds a BS in Chemistry - Chemical Engineering from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and a PhD in Catalysis and Material Science from the University Catholic of Louvain (Belgium). His main areas of expertise are in catalyst development and scaling-up for different refining, petrochemical, and carbon nanomaterials production processes. He is the inventor of more than 30 International patents that resulted in more than 20 commercial products and published more than 110 scientific articles in prestigious scientific journals.